Just kidding!!!
1st - the
QOTD from mketting: This is soooo relevant right now. I did have a dream last night. I decided to take a last minute cruise with Catrina only - we went on what I think was Carnival. We were super late to board - may even have met them at a port. The welcome buffet was tiny and the cakes they had were making fun of Disney - everything about the buffet was making fun of Disney. This group was an anit-
Disney cruise. I was sooo scared.
I swear to God Michelle, if I see you on deck, I will be shouting your name out and waving like a mad woman - too much??? OK, maybe just a wave and a BIG HUG!!! Suzie, you and I have formed a clique in her dreams - must break it up!!!! I no longer want to associate with you as of this day forward!!!!
JUST KIDDING!!!!!
2nd QOTD from suziemva:
1) How did you meet your other half? (brace yourself - I was just going to be short and quick, but then I just kept writing and writing and writing - it's OK to skim - bottom line, we met at the statehouse and fell in love)
When I worked in Boston I had a place to stay with some friends when I was in town as I only worked in town about three days a week, the rest was out in the District. I would drive in with my boss, and he would drop me off at this apartment at night. I used to then walk and take the bus and the T into work on Beacon Hill. It was sometimes last minute that we would take off for Boston and I didn't have much time to pack.
One of these trips it was a freakin' Hurricane and I didn't have an umbrella. I was a wet dog by the time I got to work. I still had meetings to attend all over downtown. I was new into the whole state house thing so not many people knew me. My co workers had this very good friend who worked in the office across the hall from us. He stopped by to say HI to everyone in the morning, saw me, and said, why don't you take my umbrella and use it and then bring it back the next time you are in town.
Fast forward six months and I am driving with my Boss, who was a 45 year old bachelor, and we were discussing dating prospects. I was in a very long term relationship, but my boss (we were close friends - not really boss/worker relationship) hated my boyfriend of 5 years. We were joking about who had crushes on him and who I was avoiding because I thought they were trying to ask me out. So I was telling him that I think that this friend of my co-workers liked me, all joking just like the rest of the conversation. He slammed on the brakes, pulled over - looked me straight in the eyes and said - Shyla, he is one of the best people I have ever known, he is extremely smart. You really should pursue this further. I was sitting there shocked - dumbfounded. I was just joking, but kinda serious in that I thought he did kindoff have a crush on me.
Well, this lead me to take another look and open my eyes to this. I was spending a lot of time with him because you go out at night when you are an aide - ALOT - and he was always with us. He was at my boss' events too all the time, and basically we just were together a lot.
I was still in this relationship, but I was really feeling trapped in it. My boyfriend was very mentally abusive to me - hence my weight gain after college that I still struggle with. This after being a very confident - and might I say, skinny and pretty woman. But the more someone tells you you are some way, the more you become that way and he was just a little worse than the boyfriend I had in college. What the hell is wrong with us women???? Why do intelligent women take this kind of crap????
I would actually pray about this. I was asking for guidance on what to do. My boyfriend and I were very close to getting engaged. I was expecting it at any time. But this new life I was leading in Boston was really making me rethink my old life and how awful this guy was to me. I was also really enjoying who you all can now guess was Paul. He WAS great, he WAS extremely intelligent, and he was very handsome. He also was very kind hearted and just the most amazingly brilliant person I had ever met. See where this is going? I was soooo crushed on him.
I had the hardest time getting Paul to go somewhere with me alone. After all, he knew about my boyfriend and he knew his feelings for me were a lot more than friendship. I had to do some pretty heavy convincing and finally got him to go with a bunch of us to a Harpoon Fest - Harpoon Brewery's tent parties they throw in Boston Harbor. The rest is history as we had a great time - talked all night long - held hands (yup, that was sooo sweet that it had me from hello just like in Jerry Maguire) - and just enjoyed getting to know each other better that evening.
I then had the problem of breaking it completely off with my long term boyfriend - this was the hardest thing I have had to do in my life. BUT it was soooo worth it. It took me another three months to completey extricate myself from that situation because we were very close to living together - I was the one with comittment issues and kept moving a little stuff at a time into his house but not fully moving in. After I boke up with him, he went into counseling, it was that bad.
I have never made a better decision in my life and I actually feel that I was led by a higher power than me to give me the strength to do this and be with Paul. I am blessed every day to be with him.
2) WHEN did you meet?
1997
3) How long did you date before getting married?
Two years
4) How long have you been married?
6 Years in May
5) Are we celebrating anything on our cruise?
We will be celebrating Qunn's 4th birthday, my 35th birthday and our 5th year anniversary (note above that it will be our 6th but we didn't do anything last year because of the birth of Catrina - so we are overdue for a blow out anniversary trip!!)
My TA has it set that Staurday night is Quinn's celebration - Wednesday night is our Anniversary celebration - and Friday night is my Birthday celebration!
so all was well.
